Welcome to the program, everybody. This is countdown live from bloomberg headquarters here in london. It is 6 00 here in london. Let us bring you up to speed. We have data out of china, just to tell you that it has not moved the market all that much. We saw a bit of a bounce in the shenzhen composite, the shanghai not moving that far. Estimates,line with industrials up. That is the macro picture. Keep an eye on a micro level, if you like. It is not very micro, but what could be the biggest brewing deal in history. I have a chart here on the sab miller share price, what a wild ride it has been on during the summer. We saw talk of the potential deal them. Inbev has a deadline to move the number of times. The latest is today, and we have had news over the last 24 hours suggesting that they might get closer to that perhaps removing the regulatory hurdles on the u. S. Business. We will have more from Ryan Chilcote through the program. We are getting numbers from carlsberg. We are of course
And, Credit Suisse beats analyst estimates. We will be speaking to the lenders chief executive in zurich. Hello. Welcome to countdown. A warm welcome to the program this morning. It is a big day for bank earnings. Credit suisse just reported earnings for its Fourth Quarter in 2014. It is proposing a dividend and investors can choose whether to receive it in shares or cash. The banks net income beat analyst estimates at 921 million swiss francs against an estimate of 869 million for the Fourth Quarter. Be sure to stay tuned. We will be hearing from brady dougan on those numbers. Thats coming up just about an hour from now. Another Bank Reporting earnings. Societe generale is reporting fourthquarter earnings for last year. It is frances number two. Profits missed estimates. Revenue in its core consumer markets falling while its capital buffer shrank as well. You income rising to 511 Million Euros from 191 Million Euros a year earlier. Net income has increased but it has missed the 505 to
Welcome to countdown. Also coming up today the winners, the glitz, the blam more, the Golden Globes in hollywood. Lets get back to our top story. France begins a new week with an unprecedented message of defines against terrorism ringing out across the world. Questions remain over the long term political implications of the charlie killings. No fewer than 56 World Leaders join the largest crowd in french history yesterday in the wake of three days of violence that killed 17 people, the french capitol is still on high alert. Sharp shooters were positioned on roofs lining the route of the march. Among the millions of marchers, it was the simple example that empathy with the victim of the masacre that told the story. Cartoonist pencils. Now from paris, i suppose what a show of global dip plat i can support. It really captures the worlds attention. What next for france after this very initial mourning and show of grief passes . This march was very historical moment for france. You had 3. 7
Welcome to countdown. Obama says he is ready to walk away from a nuclear deal with iran if it does not meet his conditions. We will bring you the latest on the talks. Plus the reaction in tel aviv. Lets start with europe. Stimulus and greece. Mario draghi launches his fight against inflation in the eurozone with an Unprecedented Program of qe. The ecb begins its Asset Purchase Program amounting to 60 billion euros a month. The greek finance minister said if the countrys creditors make requests that are not acceptable to the government the greek people might be asked to decide on how to break the deadlock. The Prime Minister signaled the referendum option could be on the table. Lets bring in david powell. He joins us bright and early this monday morning. Good morning to you, david. Lets talk about the start of qe. We have been talking about it for years, it seems. Other Central Banks enacted it years ago. Can it live up to expectations . We saw the reaction in the markets after the anno
Mark welcome to countdown, i am mark barton. Caroline Caroline Hyde. Mark the Worlds Largest luxury Goods Company lvmh has had a sales search. Sales surge. Manus equipment makers join the end and a m a action. Caroline it is a deal brewing and industry rife with dealmakaking. It is a deal that has been speculated about four years. Could be buying alcatel no kia could be buying alcatel. The deal could be announced as soon as this week. It would boost nokias presence in china and the United States. You have 1. 3 billion mobile subscribers. This is a real area of strength for alcatel. But their Wireless Network area would also bring to key players in the United States market Verizon Communications and at t. The contract that they have bring in 25 of their overall revenue. Key areas of growth. We could see them did not only for the wireless area of alcatel but also for alcatel as a whole making it the secondbiggest player. It would be the secondbiggest Network Equipment maker in the world